We’ve known for a while that Kilgrave would be back, despite being killed at the end of season one. Exactly how he returns has been a closely guarded secret, but now season two has actually been released, we know exactly what actress Rachel Taylor meant when she promised that his return would be “one of the deepest, darkest episodes” of the show so far.

David Tennant as Kilgrave in Marvel’s Jessica Jones season two (Netflix)

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Well, here we are. There’s no going back. The season two arc is all about Jessica Jones facing demons from her past, but that becomes much more explicit in episode 11 – when Kilgrave ‘returns’.

We hear David Tennant’s character before we see him. As Jessica is agonising over her killing of sadistic prison guard Dale Holiday, we hear her inner monologue: “You killed him… He’s dead… You have to take the blame…”

But then another voice interrupts her. It’s Kilgrave, suggesting she “make it look like a suicide”.

It’s Kilgrave’s voice, but are these Jessica’s thoughts? The monster inside her made flesh by the most monstrous person she knows?

The next thing we know, Jessica is cleaning up the crime scene, forging a note from Dale and doing exactly what Kilgrave suggested: making it look like suicide.

Job done, she turns to go – and hears somebody clapping. Here is the moment we finally see Kilgrave, just as many predicted when this trailer was released.

“I think someone like him, even though he’s dead, [he] doesn’t just disappear,” Carrie-Anne Moss said of Kilgrave before the second season. “[He] leaves an energy. He’s left his mark, so we get to see that, what that means.”

That’s an impressively apt way of describing how this frenetic, fearful episode plays out. Kilgrave embodies Jessica’s every dark thought and burst of anger. He may be only in her mind, but we see him through Jessica’s eyes. He’s in her office; beside her as she visits her mother in prison; laid out on a bed…

“I just need sleep,” Jessica says, trying to banish these visions of her tormentor.